America's next moon landing will be made by private companies — not NASA.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday that nine U.S. companies will compete to deliver experiments to the lunar surface. The space agency will buy the service and let private industry work out the details on getting there, he said.
The goal is to get More...

President Donald Trump plans to go ahead with asking Congress to establish a Space Force as an independent branch of the military — committing to the biggest restructuring of the U.S. military in seven decades, More...

Despite a scientist fighting "hard" against the claim, humanity spawned from a single pair which lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, according to a new study, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported.
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The Middle Ghor region north of the Dead Sea was destroyed by a powerful asteroid 3,700 years ago, archeologists said last Saturday at a conference in Denver, Colorado.
The region contains the Middle Bronze More...

The international system of measurements has been overhauled with new definitions for the kilogram and other key units.
At a meeting in Versailles, France, countries have voted to approve the wide-ranging changes More...

Earth's protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said.
The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientists raised More...

The Department of Defense wants to make sure that in an increasingly technological world, an AI missile "will do what it's asked to do" — and not make its own decision, Defense One reported.
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NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary.
Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday.
Already well past its expected More...

One in four college students experienced "clinically significant event-related distress" after the 2016 presidential election, according to a study published this week in the Journal of American College More...